Clare Best

Clare Best’s first full collection of poetry, Excisions, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, 2012. Other poetry publications include Treasure Ground, Breastless and CELL. Springlines, her project with the painter Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, explores hidden and mysterious bodies of water across the South of England. Her prose memoir The Missing List – a finalist in the Mslexia Memoir Competition – was published in 2018 by Linen Press. A second full collection of poetry, Each Other, was published in 2019, a bilingual poetry pamphlet End of Season / Fine di stagione in 2022 and a third full collection Beyond the Gate in 2023.

NB Any books listed as 'unavailable' on Amazon, e.g. CELL, Springlines and Excisions, are available from Clare directly – please contact her via her website.